Latest Fact-Checks By Dana Tims

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Monica Wehby
stated on May 21, 2014 in a campaign news release:

"Jeff Merkley was the deciding vote on Obamacare, which in Oregon has been an unmitigated disaster."

False

By Dana Tims • May 23, 2014

Jim Francesconi
stated on April 15, 2014 in a campaign website statement:

"Economic inequality in Multnomah County has a face -- and a name. It has 90,000 faces and names -- the number of county residents who are still unemployed, or underemployed, in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street crash."

False

By Dana Tims • May 16, 2014

John Kitzhaber
stated on May 7, 2014 in an email to supporters:

"Oregon today has 100,000 more jobs than it did when I was elected."

Mostly True

By Dana Tims, Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2014

Deborah Kafoury
stated on April 15, 2014 in a campaign website statement:

"When Deborah took office, the (Sellwood Bridge) project had languished for years, with only $11 million in funds. With her leadership the remaining funding was secured that got the project moving forward."

Mostly True

By Dana Tims • May 8, 2014

Brian Wilson
stated on April 28, 2014 in a campaign email:

Jules Bailey "was instrumental in creating the Business Energy Tax Credit that let companies like Wal-Mart profit by $11 million while costing the Oregon general fund $33 million."

Pants on Fire!

By Dana Tims • May 1, 2014

Betsy Miller-Jones
stated on April 4, 2014 in a newsletter:

"Did you know that in 2013 over 50 percent of all babies born in Oregon were Hispanic?"

False

By Dana Tims • April 17, 2014

National Partnership for Women & Families
stated on April 8, 2014 in a news release:

"Women in Oregon are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. If the wage gap was eliminated, a working woman in Oregon would have enough money for 2,877 gallons of gas, 72 more weeks of food for her family or nearly 12 more months of rent."

True

By Dana Tims • April 10, 2014

Andy Duyck
stated on April 4, 2014 in a public presentation:

"We’ve dedicated more money from (Washington County’s) transportation budget to bike and ped projects under my watch than at any time in the history of Washington County."

Mostly True

By Dana Tims • April 4, 2014

Hemant Mehta
stated on March 11, 2014 in a blog post:

"In Oregon, students are skipping math class to learn about the Bible."

True

By Dana Tims • March 19, 2014

Seneca Jones
stated on March 2, 2014 in newspaper ads:

Seneca Jones Timber Co., aiming to increase logging and allay fears that old growth will be cut, says mills have shifted to second-generation trees. An ad from the company asks: "Do you know that most all mills in Oregon have retooled over the past 20 years?"

True

By Dana Tims • March 14, 2014

Brian Clem
stated on February 28, 2014 in a newspaper story:

Oregon has never before tried to create a land-use plan for "what it should look like for 50 years."

True

By Dana Tims • March 6, 2014

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
stated on February 14, 2014 in a news release:

Gun "marketplaces" on Facebook mean "ANYONE can broker a deal on a gun online, meet the seller in a parking lot somewhere, and walk away with a weapon."

Mostly True

By Dana Tims • February 27, 2014

Gordon Challstrom
stated on January 15, 2014 in a campaign website statement:

"Oregon and the federal government now have more than one million acres of burnt land and millions of trees are being left to rot."

Half-True

By Dana Tims • February 21, 2014

Brad Avakian
stated on January 31, 2014 in a campaign website statement:

"In Oregon, women earn an average of 79 cents for every dollar that men earn for doing the same job. That’s just wrong."

Mostly True

By Dana Tims • February 19, 2014

Oregon Citizens Lobby
stated on February 6, 2014 in a legislative hearing tweet:

Kip Kinkel and Clackamas Town Center shootings "both where citizen with gun stopped the crime"

False

By Dana Tims • February 12, 2014

Monica Wehby
stated on January 10, 2014 in a town meeting in La Grande:

Some businesses in Oregon "are having to shrink back their businesses as a result of the law."

True

By Dana Tims • February 6, 2014

Justin Barasky
stated on January 15, 2014 in a DSCC news release:

Monica Wehby and Jason Conger are "causing devastating consequences" for nearly 23,000 Oregonians looking for work.

Pants on Fire!

By Dana Tims • January 28, 2014

Rod Monroe
stated on January 15, 2014 in an Oregon Senate work session:

"We have the lowest beer tax in the nation."

False

By Dana Tims • January 24, 2014

Bob Terry
stated on January 8, 2014 in an Oregon Public Broadcasting interview:

"And we’ve constantly been the lowest unemployed county in the state."

False

By Dana Tims • January 21, 2014

Bill Post
stated on January 9, 2014 in a tweet by Post:

Oregon Rep. Tina Kotek, D-Portland, has "never held a job nor run a business"

Pants on Fire!

By Dana Tims • January 15, 2014

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